The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 40 31 40
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +9
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 4 25 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.915% 3.994% 1.741%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.356% 6.329% 3.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 3
Average daily rate £375 £300 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
295 395 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.51% 63.10% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 215 183
Average daily rate £361 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.46% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 10
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £34.80 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
E-Commerce
West Midlands

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham E-Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing E-Commerce across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham E-Commerce Daily Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham E-Commerce Hourly Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing E-Commerce also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited E-Commerce.

1 12 (75.00%) Retail
2 6 (37.50%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) J2EE
2 6 (37.50%) Hibernate
2 6 (37.50%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) MySQL
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) PHP
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Wealth Management
5 1 (6.250%) Zend
5 1 (6.250%) Zend Framework
5 1 (6.250%) Drupal
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.250%) Magento
5 1 (6.250%) Git (software)
5 1 (6.250%) Junos
5 1 (6.250%) Pressflow
5 1 (6.250%) Blue Coat
5 1 (6.250%) CCSE
5 1 (6.250%) Business Transformation
5 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
5 1 (6.250%) Fund Management
5 1 (6.250%) WCF
5 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
5 1 (6.250%) Windows Mobile

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing E-Commerce also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited E-Commerce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (37.50%) J2EE
1 6 (37.50%) Hibernate
1 6 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (6.250%) Zend Framework
4 1 (6.250%) WCF
4 1 (6.250%) .NET
4 1 (6.250%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) Drupal
1 1 (6.250%) Magento
1 1 (6.250%) Pressflow
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Junos
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
1 1 (6.250%) Extranet
1 1 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Git (software)
1 1 (6.250%) Dreamweaver
General
1 12 (75.00%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Private Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) J2EE Developer
3 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (6.250%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Web Business Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Web Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Firewall Support
4 1 (6.250%) Web Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.250%) Graphic Design
1 1 (6.250%) Clustering
1 1 (6.250%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Wealth Management
2 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (6.250%) Business Transformation
2 1 (6.250%) Fund Management
2 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
2 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
2 1 (6.250%) OO
2 1 (6.250%) OOD
2 1 (6.250%) B2B
2 1 (6.250%) Project Management
2 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) PHP
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.250%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) CCSE
1 1 (6.250%) CCNP
1 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (6.250%) Zend
1 1 (6.250%) Blue Coat
1 1 (6.250%) Cisco
1 1 (6.250%) Adobe
1 1 (6.250%) Juniper
1 1 (6.250%) CheckPoint
1 1 (6.250%) McAfee
Birmingham, West Midlands
C# (ASP.Net) Developer required to assist in the development of a greenfield eCommerce website Essentials: - C# - ASP.Net - WCF - SQL Server This is an excellent opportunity with...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
The developer will use agile practises including pair programming, estimating, planning, design and TDD... The technical requirements of the Developer should possess a minimum of 5 years; Java,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Mobile Applications Developer required to assist in the development of a greenfield eCommerce applications Essentials: - Objective C (iPhone) - Android Desirable: - Blackberry - Windows Mobile This is an excellent opportunity...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Network Specialist required to assist in 3 seperate projects to "future-proof" a high traffic eCommerce platform: Essentials: - Juniper routing, including: Routing-instances; QoS design & implementation; Network Designl...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
My client, a leading Retail and e-Commerce business are seeking an experience Online Trading professional to lead and drive the online multi-channel team globally... This is...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £500 - 650 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013